The Essentials of Eating Gluten-Free

Eating gluten-free involves more than just avoiding wheat. Other grains — rye, barley, and triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye) — contain gluten, and because of the way oats are processed, they’re a food to be avoided as well. To be gluten-free, you need to take anything made with gluten-containing ingredients, such as malt (made from barley), out of your diet.

Gluten lurks in foods that you may guess are gluten free. You know to avoid pastries, but you may not think about looking for gluten in candy. However, you have to look long and hard to find gluten-free[more…]

The key to a gluten-free diet is knowing what to avoid — whether you're dining out or making meals at home. Luckily, the list of forbidden foods for a gluten-free diet is a lot shorter than the list of[more…]

To be safe, you need to question everything for gluten. (You may not think to question the ingredients in tea, but at least one brand contains barley malt.) Some ingredients aren’t so clear, because sometimes[more…]

A product that's labeled gluten-free isn’t necessarily 100 percent gluten-free. A food may actually have minute traces of gluten, but as long as those traces are truly small, the product may sometimes[more…]

A variety of alternative flours are available these days — a very good thing if you’re avoiding gluten in your diet. Health food stores, Asian markets, and even many mainstream groceries offer a large[more…]

Dining out on a gluten-free diet can be scary; you don’t know for sure if your foods are cross-contaminated or what ingredients actually go into them. However, you can ensure that your restaurant experience[more…]